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rymanbugs
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Backup from Dropbox to External HD

I’d like to backup the entire contents of my large Dropbox account to an external hard drive. What is the best way to do this? Considerations: I have a complex web of folders and files, some of ...
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Rich
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7 months ago

Use something like Cyberduck/Mountain Duck or CloudMounter to mount Dropbox as a drive, then copy from there direct to your external.

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Bourne Group
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

THANK YOU!!!!

I used the Cloud Mounter!

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    joelfriedman
    New member | Level 2
    2 days ago

    Hi all, just wanted an up-to-date summary on the topic. I'm on Mac 15.3.1 using DB. I share my files between a Mac Studio and MacBook Pro. I have 2+TB of files I want to backup to an external HD for safety. Thank you.

    1. I can't use TimeMachine to do this...
    2. I would have to download ALL my DB files to my internal boot drive and then manually copy them over to an external drive, which seems a bit insane
    3. I could use a 3rd party something like Cloud Mounter. Is there a consensus? How does it work?

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